Continuity mistake: In the scene near the end of the film when Murtaugh shoots at Wah Sing Ku and mistakenly kills the last of the four fathers, you can clearly hear an empty shell casing hit the floor, although he is using a revolver, which do not spit out the empty shells as they are fired.
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Chris Rock, Jet Li, Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Kim Chan, Steve Kahan
Jet Li is the real mastermind. Riggs and Murtaugh kill him during a shootout by the docks. Riggs becomes a father. Murtaugh becomes a grandfather. Butters becomes Murtaugh's son-in-law.
Rick Regan
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Lee Butters: You have the right to remain silent. So shut the fuck up. You have the right to an attorney. If you can't afford an attorney, we will provide you with the dumbest fucking lawyer on Earth. If you hire Johnny Cochrane, I'll kill you!
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Question: In the beginning of the movie when the tanker truck gets blown up, why does the fully intact truck just get launched straight up with flames below it? The source of the explosion would be the truck itself, so when ignited, the truck should have simply been blown up into a million pieces, not launched straight up fully intact.
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Answer: This was most likely done just to make the scene look that much cooler. Movies do things like this all the time.
Carl Missouri